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  • It was The Suppliant Women he asked to hear, I suppose because on that day the execution of the conspirators was uppermost in his mind, and he hoped that at least in yielding up the bodies of his enemies for an honorable burial he had played the part of Theseus.

    CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

  • When the grooms catch up with their brides, mayhem ensues in a modern retelling of "The Danaids" or "The Suppliant Women" by Aeschylus.

    Time Off Europe Calendar 2008

  • The Suppliant was no other than Antonia, and Leonella was her

    The Monk 2004

  • Among them are the love-mad queen Phaedra, whose unrequited lust leads her to suicide and murder (the subject of not one but two Hippolytus plays by the poet, one now lost); the distraught erotomane widow Evadne in Suppliant Women, who incinerates herself on her dead husband's grave; the ruthless granny Alcmene in Children of Herakles, who violently avenges herself on her male enemies; and the wild-eyed Cassandra in Trojan Women.

    The Bad Boy of Athens Mendelsohn, Daniel 2003

  • Suppliant-like for alms depending on a false and foreign court,

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

  • Suppliant Maidens, '' The Persians, '' The Seven against Thebes, 'and

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • Her story is told in Aeschylus 'Prometheus and in a magnificent chorus of his Suppliant Women.

    The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides 480? BC-406 BC Euripides 1911

  • The _Agamemnon_ is not, like Aeschylus '_Suppliant

    The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1911

  • With faith, the Suppliant heavenward lifts her hands

    Laodamia 1909

  • Suppliant has nothing to confess, nothing to regret.

    The Teaching of Jesus George Jackson 1904

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